Just last year, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, from the floor of the US Senate said: “The president looks more and more like a king that the Constitution was designed to replace.”

The senator is correct. Current presidents have entirely too much power.

OK.
So I KNOW the constitution grants presidents the power to issue
executive actions and orders. But it seems to me, The Founders never
suspected the American people would elect people of questionable
character to such a high office.

BOY, did we EVER blow THAT ONE!

We have amended the constitution 27 times already. (The 21st is simply the repeal of a different one -- the 18th, prohibition). A number of other amendments have been offered but have not been submitted to the states for ratification.

Methinks
it is time to offer another, a 28th Amendment, to the constitution that
will limit the power of the President. The authority of that office is
obviously too powerful to be entrusted to modern human beings.

The intent of my proposed amendment would be to end the power of the Executive Office to issue executive orders -- especially such orders as would instruct the creation of any rule or regulation that would have the "effect" of law.

With
the Congress split as it is, with democrats holding the Senate and
republicans holding the House of Representatives, it is impossible to
get such an amendment through both houses and on to the states.

Just because a President is upset that the Congress is not bowing to his every whim, just because Congress is dead-locked, is no reason, in my estimation, for a political coup de tat by a president of either party.

The current generation of "instant gratification" Americans are dumb as a post about the constitution and how their government is supposed to work under that constitution. Our government was not designed to rubber stamp a president. It was designed to deliberate, to debate, to mull, to argue, disagree, to thrash out, and finally, FINALLY, produce legislation that is the least restrictive of the freedom of all Americans.

Look. We have a staid
congress these days compared to those Congresses of yesteryear. It's
been a while since we have had a brawl, or a fist fight, or a physical
beat down on the floor of either of the houses of Congress. But we have had them.

Consider this: "Tension
was high and tempers flared during every Congressional session in the
years leading up to and including the Civil War period in history. In an
1850 debate about slavery, Thomas Benton, a Democrat from Missouri who
opposed slavery, became so angry at his fellow Democrat, Henry Foote of
Mississippi that he verbally attacked him on the Senate floor. Foote
drew a pistol from his Senate desk and pointed it at Benton. Their
colleagues stopped the argument before Foote could pull the trigger. The
Senate was adjourned so the members could leave for a "cooling off
period" prior to returning the next day.

Here's another example (from the same source) of, uh, shall we say, loss of decorum in the Congress: "In
1798 when Roger Griswold, a Federalist Congressman from Connecticut got
into a heated debate with Matthew Lyon, a Vermont
Democratic-Republican. Griswold made the mistake of calling Lyon a
scoundrel (a word that was considered profanity at the time). Lyon then
spit in Griswold's face and there was no stopping the ensuing melee.
Neither Griswold or Lyon believed in the proverb, "forgive and forget". A
few weeks later, Griswold attacked Lyon on the Senate floor with a cane
and then Lyon went after him with a pair of fire tongs.

Lyon was
the first Congressman to be charged with an ethics violation due to the
spitting episode. The Ethics Committee recommended he be censured but
the matter was ultimately dropped."

And WE think gridlock is terrible! WE plead for bipartisanship when partisanship is NORMAL. We complain when Congress does not pass laws. Never once do we stop to consider that every law Congress passes deprives some Americans of freedom.

Americans are clambering today for a strong central government which is antithetical to the constitution. Why? Because, in my opinion, we have so many immigrants who come from countries with strong central governments. They are, in my opinion,
uncomfortable with personal responsibility, personal and individual
liberties, and had rather have a centralized government they can learn
to "play" and to "milk" for everything they can get -- while not taking responsibility for anything.

THAT is flat-out un-American! At least it has been until today. Our
Machiavellian President, with cunning and duplicity, is happy to oblige
-- assuming a Hugo Chávez type administration and ruling by fiat,
otherwise known as Executive Orders.

This must be stopped. If it requires a constitutional amendment to stop it, then by all means, let's get on with it. The sooner, the better.